Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Sex-Glutted Marriage: A Couple’s Guide to Reducing Their Marriage Libido

vintage sex manuals

photo by Ann Douglas

I am currently working with a collaborator on an article reviewing contemporary sex advice literature. As a result, I have been reading a LOT of sex manuals. They range from the thoughtful, interesting, and potentially helpful to the narrow-minded, prescriptive, and possibly iatrogenic.

I found one manual particularly upsetting: The Sex Starved Marriage (2003) by Michele Weiner-Davis.  Below please find my (somewhat) parodic inversion of her message:

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